• Alex comes into the fitness center where you are working. He is a 16 year old high school football and basketball player. Currently, he is preparing for his upcoming football season. His coach is concerned about him having injuries because his flexibility is rather poor. 1. Please provide a thorough description of your first session with your client by answering a, b, and c. Client Intake Forms: What processes did you go through prior to conducting any flexibility assessments for your client? (6 pts) Before conducting any flexibility assessments with my client, I met with Alex and discussed the purpose for the meeting and his goals. I then obtained his liability release forms, patient history forms, and clarified that medical clearance was not needed. Alex is six foot and weighs 170 lbs. During this meeting, I was informed that Alex is a younger high school student who participates in both football and basketball sports teams. Football practice is 1 hour every morning before school starts and basketball is three days a week for 2 hours. Football games are almost every Friday and basketball games are every other Saturday. Give background information pertinent to your client that may affect this program—what did you learn about them in the intake process? (4 pts) During our meeting, I have learned that Alex undergoes a lot of physical activity with football and basketball but not enough time to properly stretch and cool down his muscles. Alex is also worried that if he does not learn to adequately stretch his muscles and improve his flexibility, the chance for injuries is higher. Based on drills that he performs for practices, I will be able to provide both dynamic and static stretches for warm-up and cool down that will gradually help increase flexibility. Tell what assessments you chose to conduct and HOW they were conducted. What were your client’s results (You make these up) & corresponding SMART goals? (8 pts) With Alex, I felt that the three assessments needed to measure his flexibility would be the sit and reach test, the calf flexibility test, and shoulder flexibility test. Because there is no targeted area for improvement, I felt that these three would be a good starting point to assess his flexibility improvements. For the sit and reach test, I had Alex remove his shoes and sit on the ground with his soles of his feet place flat against the box. Then I had him straighten his legs and pressed against the ground.
Brookes Publishing Company in 2009. The purpose of the ASQ-3 is to be used to identify if any children are in need of in-depth evaluation or benefit from the evaluation for developmental delays. The audiences for which it is intended for are directed towards parents or caregivers since they are the ones that is knowledgeable of all that the child is capable of accomplishing. The message is to find out how the child responds in the five areas compared to their peers. The tone of the questionnaire is very interactive, because there are many questions that require testing the child’s abilities to see if they can accomplish a particular task. An example would be to test a child to see if they can follow directions by asking the child to put a book on the table and put a shoe under the table. Then you would write down if the child followed the directions
Hi, Vendelyn This is an excellent start with any client by doing a proper assessment also keep you as a case manager on the right track to meet the client’s needs. I always believed every case worker should listen carefully to client’s problems because this is the only way you will help solve the issues. Vendelyn, this is also a great system mention by the CASSP “Multi System” because sometimes you will need assistance from other resources while evaluating a client’s needs to progress. Great Post!
The Denver II assessment is based on the examiner’s actual observation rather than parent support. It is designed to assess a child’s performance on various age-appropriate tasks and to determine the child’s current developmental status. The Denver II includes four areas consisting of 125 tasks: personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language, and gross motor. In order to administer the assessment the examiner will need a test kit that includes all the required materials such as a small bell, tennis ball, red pencil, small plastic doll with feeding bottle, plastic cup with handle, wooden blocks, and red yarn pom-poms with a four-inch diameter.
Firstly, the question that is specifically for female clients that asks, “Do you have any concerns about your physical health that you would like to discuss with us?” and also, “Date and place of last physical exam” I felt were not necessary for a mental health intake form because I find that this information will not have a positive or negative impact on the client’s mental health. Secondly, I felt that the section on “Legal History” should include some more information, especially for those clients that report pending legal problems. I felt some follow-up questions that would be helpful for the clinician to be aware of include whether the client is currently on parole/probation and whether the client is seeking mental health treatment as a part of his/her sentencing. Also, if the client was on parole/probation the contact details of the client’s parole/probation officer, as well as approximate dates when parole/probation began and when it is expected to end would be information that is valuable for the clinician. Thirdly, under the substance use heading, the client’s history of illicit substance use should be more in-depth. Currently, it is only inquiring about the length of use for each substance and date of last use. I believe that it would be useful to the clinician to have knowledge of at what age the client began to use each substance, how much of the illicit substance client uses, how often the substance is used, and the route of administration (i.e. IV, IM, Oral, Smoking,
The protocols were designed to determine and compare the effects of one or more of the following conditions; only warm-up (WU), no preparation, warm-up and static stretching (WUS), only stretching. All the subjects are instructed to only perform their regular activity such as working or studying and not exercise or stretch before testing (2*). The WU protocol of each consisted of a 12 minute protocol consisting of jogging distances varying from 800m to 1000m followed by several drills and body weight exercises. The stretching protocol includes hamstring stretch, triceps surae stretch, quadriceps stretch (3*). Both within subjects and between subjects’ experimental designs are used across the articles. After the protocols, the athletes are asked to perform sprints ranging from 40m to 100m to their best ability. Multiple trials are taken in order to get a mean value. The times were recorded using electronic timing gate systems. For the outdoor trials, wind speed and direction are recorded according to International Association of Athletics Federations
Every week I look forward to our session and the issues that will be presented on that day. My personal goals for this session were to continue listening to the client and being able to recognize her important concerns.
Marc A. Tompkins, MD, an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Minnesota, hopes the research done on ACL injuries "will help foster discussion both about how changes in pediatric athletic participation over the past 20 years may be impacting injury rates and how we can best develop youth injury prevention programs and athletic participation guidelines" (American Academy of Pediatricians) . One way to do this, according to Tompkins, is to create more preventative programs aimed at decreasing injuries. Stephen Swirsky, an orthopedic surgeon at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, and his team have developed an injury prevention program to reduce ACL injuries. He states one of the best ways to reduce injuries is to “teach good running techniques, which will improve function and agility” (Jayanthi, et al). This program teaches safe jumping, landing, warm-ups, hamstring strengthening, balance, stretching, and plyometrics. Additionally, the program emphasizes the importance of flexibility and stretching as “the more flexible they are, the less likely they are to have an injury.”(Reinberg). These programs and techniques have shown decreases in ACL injuries. Another effective way to do this is by changing the ways teams address warming up. According to Sprang, there are specific warm up skills teams could and should use. He specifically supports the FIFA 11+ program
In this summary paper, there will be a set of two strengths-based questions identified that will help to obtain information that is needed to assist a female client that is reluctant to open up regarding personal information. The information is needed for documents for reduced child care for her family. Also included will be two sets of strength based questions that will help to achieve the goal of focusing on the interview and pertinent issues with the client. For each set of questions provided, there will be a strategy in mind that explains how the goals will be implemented.
Verification- The goals need to be specified and the counselor and the client should discuss how the client will know the problem has been solved.
Jarvis, C. (2008). Physical examination and health assessment (5th ed.) with skills DVD. St. Louis: Saunders.
1. List all of the screenings/assessments that you were assigned to at the schools and give a generalized discussion of your assessment findings.
I think personal growth; appropriate boundaries and better relationships with the family and friends would be my measurement to be able to tell that my client is really “working a program”. Considering all these things together could help the client to accept his or her life and move on to the journey step by step.
In this, they could get hurt or injured in the game or at practice. If this happens for many of them, it is game over. Their athletic career had ended even before it got a chance to have a favorable outcome. In addition, since the students are not considered as employees when an injury occurs, they cannot recover, and they are swept under the rug (Dosh 203). Therefore, to further the students dream and ensure that they keep on playing the game they love, it is necessary for them to be given full advantages of an
What are the client’s strengths and how can you apply these strengths to appropriate interventions?
Being in a sport involves someone giving his or her greatest effort. This can bring athletes rewards, but it can also put an athlete’s health at stake. Some of these injuries are temporary. In William Cottrell’s article “Sports Injuries and Arthritis,” he states, “Most sports injuries are mild and temporary…. Minor sprains and bruises or overuse injuries treated properly may be nuisances but do not necessarily cause any permanent problems.” Temporary injuries may heal anywhere from a week to several months. There are athletes who view injuries as foibles and who agree that being in a sport is worth all of the pain and injuries that they endure, but what many athletes do not take into consideration is how these injuries can manifest and effect them later in life, whether this be a few months or even a few decades down the road. Just as there are temporary injuries, there are also injuries which can be long-term or even permanent. In Cottrell’s article “Sports Injuries and...